Document-file.



Patented Oct. I4, !902. W. S. EBBETS.

DOCUMENT FILE.

(Application filed June 19, 1902.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

W'ILLIAM S. EBBETS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE FIRM OF EBERHARD FABER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DOCUMENT-FILE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of' Letters Patent No. '711,301, dated October 14, 1902.

Application filed .Tune 19, 1902. Serial No. 112.273. (Ne model.)

To all whom, it may concrn:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. EBBETS, a citizen of' the United States, residing in the borough ofManhattan, city, eounty, and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Document-Files, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a file for holding docu ments and other legal papers,correspondence, &8.; and the object thereof is to provide afile which is substantial, endurable, and easily adjustable for quick and ready referenee to the papers contained therein.

In carrying out my invention I em ploy front and back slab members, preferably reetangular in Outline shape, and the long edges of both members are provided With means for receiving suitably-adjustable straps or tapes which pass transversely around the outside of the file to hold the members and the papers filed therein together, said means also holding the straps or tapes to the slab members.

In the drawings, Figure l represents a general perspective View of my improved document-file. Fg. 2 is a front elevation, and Fig. 3 a side elevation, of one of the members of the file. ,Figs 4 and 5 are partial front and side elevations, respectively.

a and b represent, respectively, front and back slab members of the documentfile, which members are preferably of rectangular shape and are advantageously made of wood, metal,compressed cardboard,orothersuitable and endurable material and are made to correspond in shape.

I prefer to notch both long edges of both the members a and b, as at c, the notches c being placed near the ends of the front and back slab members and in correspondinglybpposite positions. Staples (Z or other and equivalent means are fitted longitudinallyand centrally into the recesses c, the points of the staples being preferably driven into the corners of the reeesses c suficiently far to secure the same therein and to leave a small space between the inner side of the staple and the face of the recess.

In connection with the hereinbefore-described front and back members I employ an adjust-able strap e, which may be made according to the strap shown and described in United States Letters Patent No. 425,115, granted April S, 1890, the said strap being passed through the space between the staples d and the face of the recesses c and extending transversely around the outside of the file.

Both sets of staples may be onlysufiiciently wide to receive the strap employed, as shown in Figs. l, 2, and 3,01' one or both sets of staples may be made longer than the width of the strap or tape, Figs. 4: and 5, thereby providing means for adjusting the position of the strap to theplace Where the effect of the compression will be most advantageous.

I claim as my invention- A document-file comprising front and back slab members of rectangular shape and suitable material, having notches in the long sides of said members in correspondingly-opposite positions, staples Secured to the edges at said notches, and adjustable straps passing through the spaces between the said staples and the faces of the said notches and around the said members of the documentfile, substantially as shown and described.

Signed by me this 17th day of June, 1902.

WVM. S. EBBETS.

Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, BERTHA M. ALLEN. 

